Testimony of Healing February 21, 1970 Issue

Over seventeen years ago I first attended a Wednesday evening...

Virginia Gray Curry

Over seventeen years ago I first attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. My purpose was to inquire of a Christian Science practitioner how my six-year-old son might be healed of the swelling and discomfort caused by four abscessed teeth. The dentist had refused to extract them until these symptoms were removed. My son was healed by the Christian Science treatment given by the practitioner through the next day, and he returned to school on Friday. He kept the four teeth until they came out naturally to make room for the second teeth. The practitioner had asked one thing of him: to decide himself whether he wished to have treatment in Christian Science.

It was about a month later, after prayerful study of the Christian Science Quarterly Lesson-Sermon entitled "Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced," that I was healed instantaneously of the smoking habit. I had yearned to be free of the habit. The Bible verse (Ps. 119:133) "Let not any iniquity have dominion over me" became a law unto my experience. The desire to smoke was replaced by the desire, or prayer, for spiritual understanding.

The same son was healed of a broken tooth which had resulted from a fall from a bicycle. The tooth regained its normal shape and appearance. It simply grew out again. The boy and I held to a statement in Science and Health, where, in explanation of Genesis 2:4, 5, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 520): "Here is the emphatic declaration that God creates all through Mind, not through matter, —that the plant grows, not because of seed or soil, but because growth is the eternal mandate of Mind." It was the portion "growth is the eternal mandate of Mind" that was deeply meaningful to us in this instance of healing.

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